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Mutiny at the meeting: Lakeview neighbors hijack Metra hearing to voice UP-N concerns
“We’ve been growing, gentrifying, changing the North Side, and you’re endangering everything we have done,” said one neighbor.
May 2, 2022
How about increasing CTA staffing, reliability, and ridership as a crime-fighting strategy?
What if we focused on getting the CTA workforce up to full strength as a strategy to increase reliability, ridership, and safety, by having more eyes in the 'L' cars to deter crime and bad behavior?
April 28, 2022
Lightfoot’s plan to spend $7.5M to pay people to burn gas narrowly passes City Council
If you're unhappy that your tax dollars will be used to pay people to drive, now you know to hold accountable.
April 27, 2022
Parallel lies: Romanelli claims Lake St. is the only ‘L’ branch with no redundant bus line
To justify spending billions to rebuild the Lake Street 'L' to facilitate driving, he falsely claimed it's "the only rail line that doesn’t have a corresponding bus service within an eighth of a mile."
April 26, 2022
Data analysis found CTA has only been running about half its scheduled Blue Line runs
A mobile developer found that has been fairly consistently running roughly 52 percent of its scheduled Blue Line service, with particularly bad gaps at night and on weekends.
April 25, 2022
Driver fatally struck Allen Lee Jr., 88, on 5-lane Western Avenue in Morgan Park
Lee was one of five pedestrians fatally struck on Chicago streets this year.
April 22, 2022
This week in gas-pandering: Wilson plans 3rd giveaway, Lightfoot’s gas cards advance
Come on, Chicago politicians, when it comes to sucking up to motorists, let's not have a race to the bottom.
April 21, 2022
Driver who failed to yield fatally struck Yehuala Melkama, 44, in Uptown crosswalk
Drivers failing to yield to pedestrians in a crosswalk and striking them is sadly a common phenomenon in Chicago.
April 20, 2022
$287K verdict shows using flimsy posts to “protect” lanes puts cyclists, taxpayers at risk
Not only do these flimsy installations fail to provide physical protection, they leave taxpayers on the hook for injury lawsuits against the city government when cyclists wipe out on the broken bollards.
April 20, 2022
The NDLSD planning process is an opportunity to create a better future. Will IDOT do so?
"We’re really at a crucial point in the history of humanity when we can make a real bold decision to have a better future. We should seize the moment.”
April 19, 2022
